160 A SKETCH OF THE BOTANY OF THE BASIN OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE OF UTAH. 
smaller than those of V. cuculata. May. Yoab Valley, and Great Salt Lake City, Mrs. 
Carrington. . 
V. . . . pedunculata, Tor. & Gr., fl. 1, p. 141. Caulescent. Leaves rhomboid- 
ovate, crenately toothed, abruptly narrowed at the base into a petiole; flower large, deep 
yellow; petals broadly obovate, the two upper with conspicuous claws, lateral ones bearded 
at base; spur very short. Borders of the Great Salt Lake, Maj. Stansbury. 
PORTULACACEA. 
Lewisia rediviva, Pursh. fl. 1, p. 366, Torr. & Gr., Suppl. p. 677. Root thick, 
fusiform and branching, covered with a brownish bark; leaves densely imbricate on 
the short thick caudex, succulent, linear-oblong; scape short, fleshy, articulated above 
the middle, bearing a single flower with an involucre of 5—7 subulate scales. Flower 
large, petals 8—12, oblong-linear, rose-coloured. A very singular plant, called by the 
Indians Spoetlum, or Spatulum. The root is largely employed as an article of food. 
Stripped of its bark, the white inner portion is boiled in water, and forms a substance si- 
milar to sago, or arrow-root. Yoab Valley, Mrs. Carrington. 
LINACEA. 
Linum perenne, Linn. Torr. & Gr., fl. 1, p. 204. (Flax.) Leaves alternate, linear-acute ; 
flowers terminal, blue; sepals oval, with membranaceous margins, three to five-nerved. 
Yoab Valley, Mrs. Carrington. 
GERANIACEA. 
Eropium cicutarium, L’Her. Torr. & Gr., fl. 1, p. 208. (Storksbill.) Stem prostrate; 
leaves pinnately divided, segments pinnatifid, incised or acute; flowers umbellate, light- 
purple colour. Islands of the Great Salt Lake. June. Maj. Stansbury. 
ANACARDIACE. 
Ruus. . . . . (Sumach.) A species of Rhus, not collected, is mentioned by Col. 
Fremont as forming thickets at the north end of the Salt Lake. 
MALVACEA. 
Sipaucea malveflora, Gray, Pl. Wright, 1, p. 16. A plant 2—8 feet high, with purple 
flowers. Radical leaves orbicular, lobed or incisely crenate; cauline ones 83—5 parted, 
segments three-lobed, dentate at top. Raceme multiflore. June. Antelope Island, Maj. 
Stansbury. 
MALVASTRUM coccineum, Gray, Pl. Fendl. p. 24. 
Var. grossulariefolium, Torr. in Maj. Stansb. Rep., p. 384. Stems very pu- 
bescent, 15—20 inches high; leaves on long petioles, deeply three to five-parted; segments 
three-cleft ; racemes 3—4 inches long, terminal, many-flowered, shortly pedunculate, light- 
